Music: NO MUSIC LIKE THAT MUSIC

Nobody has more vividly evoked the kind of supercharged
evangelist-gospel atmosphere of Aretha Franklin's childhood than Black
Novelist James Baldwin (a onetime Harlem storefront preacher). In his
1963 book, The Fire Next Time, he wrote:

THERE is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints
rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those
voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. I have never seen
anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without
warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so...